Collected fictions
By: Jorge Luis Borges ; translated by Andrew Hurley.
Contributors: Hurley, Andrew.
Edition: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 565
Copyright date: 1998 Maria Kodama
Subjects: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899- -- Translations into English
Other titles: Ficciones
Description: "Commemorating the hundredth anniversary of his birth, this centenary edition at last brings together all of Borges' magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in superb translation by Andrew Hurley. Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and the perfect introduction to the mater's work for all those who have yet to discover him." --cover p. 2
Table of contents: label: Part 1
title: A Universal History of Iniquity (1935)
pagenum: 1; label: Preface to the First Edition
pagenum: 3; label: Preface to the 1954 Edition
pagenum: 4; label: chapter 1
title: The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell
pagenum: 6; label: chapter 2
title: The Improbably Impostor Tom Castro
pagenum: 13; label: chapter 3
title: The Widow Ching--Pirate
pagenum: 19; label: chapter 4
title: Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities
pagenum: 25; label: chapter 5
title: The Disinterested Kill Bill Harrigan
pagenum: 31; label: chapter 6
title: The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké
pagenum: 35; label: chapter 7
title: Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv
pagenum: 40; label: chapter 8
title: Man on Pink Corner
pagenum: 45; label: chapter 9
title: Et cetera
pagenum: 53; label: Index of Sources
pagenum: 64; label: Part 2
title: Fictions (1944)
pagenum: 65; label: The Garden of the Forking Paths (1941)
pagenum: 67; label: Foreword
pagenum: 67; label: chapter 10
title: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
pagenum: 68; label: chapter 11
title: The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
pagenum: 82; label: chapter 12
title: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
pagenum: 88; label: chapter 13
title: The Circular Ruins
pagenum: 96; label: chapter 14
title: The Lotery in Babylon
pagenum: 101; label: chapter 15
title: A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain
pagenum: 107; label: chapter 16
title: The Library of Babel
pagenum: 112; label: chapter 17
title: The Garden of Forking Paths
pagenum: 119; label: Part 3
title: Artifices (1944)
pagenum: 129; label: Foreword
pagenum: 129; label: chapter 18
title: Funes, His Memory
pagenum: 131; label: chapter 19
title: The Shape of the Sword
pagenum: 138; label: chapter 20
title: The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
pagenum: 143; label: chapter 21
title: Death and the Compass
pagenum: 147; label: chapter 22
title: The Secret Miracle
pagenum: 157; label: chapter 23
title: Three Versions of Judas
pagenum: 163; label: chapter 24
title: The End
pagenum: 168; label: chapter 25
title: The Cult of the Phoenix
pagenum: 171; label: chapter 26
title: The South
pagenum: 174; label: Part 4
title: The Aleph (1949)
pagenum: 181; label: chapter 27
title: The Immortal
pagenum: 183; label: chapter 28
title: The Dead Man
pagenum: 196; label: chapter 29
title: The Theologians
pagenum: 201; label: chapter 30
title: Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden
pagenum: 208; label: chapter 31
title: A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)
pagenum: 212; label: chapter 32
title: Emma Zunz
pagenum: 215; label: chapter 33
title: The House of Asterion
pagenum: 220; label: chapter 34
title: The Other Death
pagenum: 223; label: chapter 35
title: Deutsches Requiem
pagenum: 229; label: chapter 36
title: Averroës' Search
pagenum: 235; label: chapter 37
title: The Zahir
pagenum: 242; label: chapter 38
title: The Writing of the God
pagenum: 250; label: chapter 39
title: Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth
pagenum: 255; label: chapter 40
title: The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths
pagenum: 263; label: chapter 41
title: The Wait
pagenum: 265; label: chapter 42
title: The Man on the Threshold
pagenum: 269; label: chapter 43
title: The Aleph
pagenum: 274; label: Afterword
pagenum: 287; label: Part 5
title: The Maker (1960)
pagenum: 289; label: Foreword: For Leopoldo Lugones
pagenum: 291 |; label: chapter 44
title: The Maker
pagenum: 292; label: chapter 45
title: Dreamtigers
pagenum: 294; label: chapter 46
title: A Dialog About a Dialog
pagenum: 295; label: chapter 47
title: Toenails
pagenum: 296; label: chapter 48
title: Covered Mirrors
pagenum: 297; label: chapter 49
title: Argumentum Ornithologicum
pagenum: 299; label: chapter 50
title: The Captive
pagenum: 300; label: chapter 51
title: The Mountebank
pagenum: 301; label: chapter 52
title: Delia Elena San Marco
pagenum: 303; label: chapter 53
title: A Dialog Between Dead Men
pagenum: 304; label: chapter 54
title: The Plot
pagenum: 307; label: chapter 55
title: A Problem
pagenum: 308; label: chapter 56
title: The Yellow Rose
pagenum: 310; label: chapter 57
title: The Witness
pagenum: 311; label: chapter 58
title: Martín Fierro
pagenum: 312; label: chapter 59
title: Mutations
pagenum: 314; label: chapter 60
title: Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
pagenum: 315; label: chapter 61
title: Paradiso, XXXI, 108
pagenum: 316; label: chapter 62
title: Parable of the Palace
pagenum: 317; label: chapter 63
title: Everything and Nothing
pagenum: 319; label: chapter 64
title: Ragnarök
pagenum: 321; label: chapter 65
title: Inferno, I, 32
pagenum: 323; label: chapter 66
title: Borges and I
pagenum: 324; label: Part 6
title: Museum
pagenum: 325; label: chapter 67
title: On Exactitude in Science
pagenum: 325; label: chapter 68
title: In Memoriam, J.F.K.
pagenum: 326; label: Afterword
pagenum: 327; label: Part 7
title: In Praise of Darkness (1969)
pagenum: 329; label: Foreword
pagenum: 331; label: chapter 69
title: The Ethnographer
pagenum: 334; label: chapter 70
title: Pedro Salvadores
pagenum: 336; label: chapter 71
title: Legend
pagenum: 338; label: chapter 72
title: A Prayer
pagenum: 339; label: chapter 73
title: His End and His Beginning
pagenum: 340; label: Part 8
title: Brodie's Report (1970)
pagenum: 343; label: Foreword
pagenum: 345; label: chapter 74
title: The Interloper
pagenum: 348; label: chapter 75
title: Unworthy
pagenum: 352; label: chapter 76
title: The Story from Rosendo Juárez
pagenum: 358; label: chapter 77
title: The Encounter
pagenum: 364; label: chapter 78
title: Juan Muraña
pagenum: 370; label: chapter 79
title: The Elderly Lady
pagenum: 375; label: chapter 80
title: The Duel
pagenum: 381; label: chapter 81
title: The Other Duel
pagenum: 386; label: chapter 82
title: Guayaquil
pagenum: 390; label: chapter 83
title: The Gospel According to Mark
pagenum: 397; label: chapter 84
title: Brodie's Report
pagenum: 402; label: Part 9
title: The Book of Sand (1975)
pagenum: 409; label: chapter 85
title: The Other
pagenum: 411; label: chapter 86
title: Ulrikke
pagenum: 418; label: chapter 87
title: The Congress
pagenum: 422; label: chapter 88
title: There Are More Things
pagenum: 437; label: chapter 89
title: The Sect of the Thirty
pagenum: 443; label: chapter 90
title: The Night of the Gifts
pagenum: 446; label: chapter 91
title: The Mirror and the Mask
pagenum: 451; label: chapter 92
title: "Undr"
pagenum: 455; label: chapter 93
title: A Weary Man's Utopis
pagenum: 460; label: chapter 94
title: The Bribe
pagenum: 466; label: chapter 95
title: Avelino Arrendondo
pagenum: 472; label: chapter 96
title: The Disk
pagenum: 477; label: chapter 97
title: The Book of Sand
pagenum: 480; label: Afterword
pagenum: 484; label: Part 10
title: Shakespeare's Memory (1983)
pagenum: 487; label: chapter 98
title: August 25, 1983
pagenum: 489; label: chapter 99
title: Blue Tigers
pagenum: 494; label: chapter 100
title: The Rose of Paracelsus
pagenum: 504; label: chapter 101
title: Shakespeare's Memory
pagenum: 508; label: A Note on the Translation
pagenum: 517 |; label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 523; label: Notes to the Fictions
pagenum: 525